Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” has been named the best original screenplay of 2017 by the the Writers Guild of America, West and the Writers Guild of America, East, which handed out the 2018 Writers Guild Awards at simultaneous ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York.

James Ivory won the adapted-screenplay award for “Call Me by Your Name.”

Since 2000, 13 of the 18 original-screenplay winners have gone on to win the Academy Award in that category, as have 12 of the adapted-screenplay winners. One of the WGA winners goes on to win the Oscar for Best Picture slightly more than half the time.

While “Call Me by Your Name” was a clear favorite in the adapted-screenplay category, and will be a prohibitive frontrunner at the Oscars, the original-screenplay category is considered a very close race between “Get Out,” “Lady Bird” and “The Shape of Water,” and one in which the WGA results could have real repercussions in the Best Picture race.

While the Directors Guild and Producers guild wins for “The Shape of Water” still make it a favorite to win, the Writers Guild victory for Peele and “Get Out” position it as a real contender in the same way that WGA wins did for “Moonlight,” “Spotlight” and “Crash,” among others.

“Veep” won the award for comedy series, while “The Handmaid’s Tale” won awards for drama series and the award for best new series. “Big Little Lies” won for long-form television adaptation and “Flint” won for longform original.

The “Chicanery” episode of “Better Call Saul” won the award for a TV drama episode, while the “Rosario’s Quinceanera” episode of “Will and Grace” won for TV comedy episode.

The Comedy/Variety/Talk Series award, in a super-sized category with eight nominees, went to “Last Night Tonight With John Oliver.” “The Kennedy Center Honors” won for comedy/variety specials, and “Saturday Night Live” won for comedy/variety sketch series.

“Jane” won the award for documentary film.

Because the WGA limits its awards to scripts produced under the jurisdiction of the guild’s Minimum Basic Agreement, or an agreement by an affiliated international guild, scripts that have received Oscar nominations or wins are occasionally ineligible for Writers Guild Awards.

This year, original-screenplay Oscar nominee “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” was ineligible and was replaced by “I, Tonya” in the guild’s nominations. Nominations in the WGA’s adapted-screenplay category were an exact match with the Oscar nominees.

The Writers Guild is the last of the four major Hollywood guilds to announce its awards, and the results mean that four different films have won the guild’s five top awards. Previously, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” won the Screen Actors Guild’s ensemble award, while Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water” won the top Directors Guild and Producers Guild awards.

The WGA, East honored Tina Fey and Robert Carlock (the Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence), Geoffrey C. Ward (the Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Career Achievement), Hamilton Nolan (the Richard B. Jablow Award for Devoted Service to the Guild) and Nicole Landau (the Michael Collyer Memorial Fellowship in Screenwriting).

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY“Call Me by Your Name,” Screenplay by James Ivory; Based on the Novel by André Aciman *WINNER
“The Disaster Artist,” Screenplay by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber; Based on the Book “The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside ‘The Room,’ the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made” by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell
“Logan,” Screenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green; Story by James Mangold; Based on Characters from the X-Men Comic Books and Theatrical Motion Pictures
“Molly’s Game,” Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin; Based on the Book by Molly Bloom
“Mudbound,” Screenplay by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees; Based on the Novel by Hillary Jordan

DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY
“Betting on Zero,” Written by Theodore Braun; Gunpowder & Sky“Jane,” Written by Brett Morgen; National Geographic *WINNER
“No Stone Unturned,” Written by Alex Gibney; Abramorama
“Oklahoma City,” Written by Barak Goodman; American Experience Films

LONG FORM ADAPTED“Big Little Lies,” Teleplay by David E. Kelley, Based on the Novel by Liane Moriarty *WINNER
“Fargo,” Written by Monica Beletsky, Bob DeLaurentis, Noah Hawley, Ben Nedivi, Matt Wolpert, Based on the film “Fargo”
“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” Teleplay by Peter Landesman and Alexander Woo and George C. Wolfe, Based on the book written by Rebecca Skloot
“The Wizard of Lies,” Teleplay by Sam Levinson and John Burnham Schwartz and Samuel Baum, Based on the Book Written by Diane B. Henriques and “Truth and Consequences” by Laurie Sandell

DOCUMENTARY SCRIPT – CURRENT EVENTS“Confronting ISIS” (“Frontline”), Written by Martin Smith *WINNER
“Poverty, Politics and Profit” (“Frontline”), Written by Rick Young
“Unseen Enemy,” Written by Janet Tobias

DOCUMENTARY SCRIPT – OTHER THAN CURRENT EVENTS
“Divided States of America” Part One (“Frontline”), Written by Michael Kirk & Mike Wiser
“Rachel Carson” (“American Experience”), Written and Directed by Michelle Ferrari“The Great War” Part II (“American Experience”), Written by Stephen Ives *WINNER
“The Great War” Part III (“American Experience”), Written by Rob Rapley
“The Vietnam War,” Episode Six: “Things Fall Apart,” Written by Geoffrey C. Ward

DIGITAL NEWS
“At the Capitol With Those for Whom Last Night Mattered the Most,” Written by Emma Roller; SplinterNews.com
“Becoming Ugly,” Written by Madeleine Davies; Jezebel.com“The Super Predators,” Written by Melissa Jeltsen, Dana Liebelson; Huffingtonpost.com *WINNER
“Why Did Politicon Make Me Want To Die?,” Written by Libby Watson; SplinterNews.com

Every year at the Academy Awards, there are inevitably certain nominees that raise eyebrows in surprise and glaring omissions that furrow those eyebrows in anger. 2018 was no different. Here are some of this year's snubs and surprises.

SURPRISE: Denzel Washington for "Roman J. Israel, Esq.": Washington's portrayal of a lawyer caught in a moral quagmire left critics lukewarm and didn't make much of an impact at the box office, yet it has earned the beloved actor his ninth Oscar nomination and sixth in the Best Actor category.

SNUB: Tom Hanks for "The Post": Many awards prognosticators expected that the Best Actor slot taken by Denzel would have gone to Tom Hanks for his portrayal of Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee. Instead, Jason Robards' performance in "All The President's Men" remains the only Ben Bradlee to get an Oscar nod.

SURPRISE: Lesley Manville for "Phantom Thread": Daniel Day Lewis got much of the press for "Phantom Thread," but Manville has earned some attention for her performance as Reynolds Woodcock's devoted sister and business partner, who spends the whole film putting up with Reynolds obsessive nonsense.

SNUB: Holly Hunter for "The Big Sick": Kumail Nanjiani's true-story dramedy earned a screenplay nomination, but Hunter, who was considered an early contender for Best Supporting Actress last summer for her performance as Kumail's tough but loving future mother-in-law, ended up sliding out of the final list.

SURPRISE: Paul Thomas Anderson for "Phantom Thread": It feels weird to call it a surprise that an acclaimed filmmaker like Anderson got a nomination for Best Director, but in such a competitive field, not many awards analysts expected him to sneak in and take a nod for his work immersing audiences in Reynolds Woodcock's meticulous world. That's especially considering he managed to beat out...

SNUB: Steven Spielberg for "The Post": With its paean to journalism and not-so-subtle tweak at Donald Trump, it was expected that Academy voters would go ga-ga over "The Post." Instead, it's getting the "Selma" treatment, earning a Best Picture nomination but only getting one other nom for Meryl Streep while Spielberg misses out on an eighth Oscar nomination.

SURPRISE: "Abacus: Small Enough to Jail" for Best Documentary Feature: PBS will get a surprise nomination for their powerful recounting about how a small, family-owned bank in New York's Chinatown became the only bank prosecuted by the feds in the wake of the 2008 recession.

SNUB: "City of Ghosts" for Best Documentary Feature: Docs about the ongoing Syria crisis have been fertile ground for award winning docs like "Last Men In Aleppo" and last year's Best Short Doc winner, "The White Helmets." But the Academy didn't go for this horrifying but moving tale about Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, a team of citizen journalists reporting the abuses of ISIS at the risk of their own lives.

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Who got robbed at the Oscars this year?

Every year at the Academy Awards, there are inevitably certain nominees that raise eyebrows in surprise and glaring omissions that furrow those eyebrows in anger. 2018 was no different. Here are some of this year's snubs and surprises.

Steve Pond, awards editor at TheWrap, is also author of the L.A. Times bestseller The Big Show. He has been covering entertainment for more than two decades, and is the industry's most knowledgeable Academy Awards prognosticator.